The third day of Pragyan kick-started with several guest lectures that were a major crowd-puller. Lectures by Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and MD of India’s premier missile programme, BRAHMOS and by Gianni Di Caro, a senior researcher at IDSIA, the Swiss Artificial Intelligence lab, both witnessed a packed auditorium. The latter’s presentations covered the various aspects about the same, […]

More than 400 girls at Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh Government Women’s Technical Training Institute, Hyderabad, are forced to urinate in the open and in empty classrooms, since the college does not have usable toilets. The 40-year-old establishment has only one toilet for 462 students, which poses serious hygiene and sanitation issues for women. When PaGaLGuY spoke to the […]

Some 4500 students of the 6,000 odd, at IIT Kanpur were in for a rude shock when they were asked to cough up approximately Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 each as electricity bill for January 2016. This is a far cry from the odd Rs 2,000 they used to individually pay up per semester.  2016 onwards, IIT-K […]

The who’s who of international cinema took their hats off for some of the best films of 2015 at the 88th Academy Awards which was conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).  The Oscar, as the award is commonly known as, was presented across 24 categories. The award ceremony was hosted […]

In a world where youngsters are into buying selfie sticks, IITians in their first year buy drafters. Initially what seems to be a simple instrument of two perpendicular scales, it is well equipped with numerous plans of destroying the first 4 months at IIT. Well, Engineering Drawing or ED(as IITians call it) isn’t all about […]

“BIMTECH really taught me the biggest lesson of life i.e. a person needs to change roles quickly to grow in an organization.” Lipika Ghosh       PGDM (2014-16) Selected in Invesco Ltd. (Invesco Ltd. is an American Independent Investment Management Company that is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and has branch offices in 20 countries including […]

CAT OA Score: 97.29 QA: 93.45 ; VA: 97.07 ; LRDI: 94.43 Profile: X – 84% ; XII – 82.80% ; B.Tech – 76.50% Work Ex – 23 Months (TCS) MDI WAT-GD-PI Experience – 24 Feb – 9 am slot We were assembled in a class and documents were verified. Then, at 9:45 we were […]

S. Selvakumar (21), a final year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at OAS Institute of Technology and Management in Thiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu committed suicide in his hostel room on Friday. The student took the extreme step after his room-mate, Shanmugavel, discovered that the former had stolen his mobile phone and laptop. They shared […]

VJTI students made a portrait of Sir CV Raman using 1,800 Rubik cubes Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, organised a two-day event, ‘Catalyst’, to honour Sir CV Raman, the man behind the Raman Effect. February 28 is marked as the National Science Day (NSD) in India, to commemorate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his invention in the field […]

NIT Trichy’s annual techno-management fest -Pragyan, started with a high on February 25, 2016.  It started with a plethora of events, ranging from workshops, guest lectures, infotainment events and more. The events organised on February 26, saw active and enthusiastic participation from students of various colleges. Circuitrix, an event for all circuital enthusiasts to prove […]